[gentoo-dev] USE flags groups

2005-07-21 Thread Herbert Fischer
I see that the USE flags list is very big today but I don't know if it's growing too fast. So, I may think that someday Gentoo will need some mechanism to facilitate USE flags configuration. I suggest the creation of a USE flags grouping mechanism to help the decision making of configuring

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags groups

2005-07-21 Thread Herbert Fischer
: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Herbert, Herbert Fischer schrieb: | ... | | I suggest the creation of a USE flags grouping mechanism to help the | decision making of configuring make.conf when doing initial setup or | ... You mean GLEP 29[1] ??? Danny [1] http

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-20 Thread Herbert Fischer
Great! Doing a grep on portage I found this another package with profile.d things: dev-util/aegis Thanks! On 7/20/05, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 20 July 2005 03:27 pm, Herbert Fischer wrote: So... profile.d have future on Gentoo? If yes, any idea on when

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-16 Thread Herbert Fischer
that on the cited commercial OSes global customizations, that can break the entire system, can be easily done by any user. On 7/15/05, Michael Marineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday 15 July 2005 06:56 pm, Herbert Fischer wrote: Thanks... I saw that bug and saw

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-16 Thread Herbert Fischer
So... why /etc/.skel/ needs to be touched by Gentoo emerges? Isn't this directory subject to developers installing foo-bar.sh files? So, isn't this case the same with /etc/profile.d ?? On 7/16/05, Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:34:09 -0400 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-16 Thread Herbert Fischer
I meant... Isn't this directory subject to developers installing custom .bashrc or .bash_profile, or whatever automatically executed on login? On 7/16/05, Herbert Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So... why /etc/.skel/ needs to be touched by Gentoo emerges? Isn't this directory subject

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-16 Thread Herbert Fischer
All scripts created by Gentoo emerges have some header signature (sort of cvs information), am I right? If so, some sort of checking script can detect Gentoo signed files on /etc/profile.d and just ignore them when scanning profile.d for user scripts. On 7/16/05, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-15 Thread Herbert Fischer
Hi, I'm new to this list and I really don't know if this is the right place to post this message. I already posted something about this on the gentoo forums and I don't know too if the correct persons are seeing that, so I decided to post here. Sorry for the double posting, so I'll be straight on

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-15 Thread Herbert Fischer
thanks! I did not look at bugs.gentoo.org because I did not thought that things like this could be placed there, as I consider a suggestion, not a bug. On 7/15/05, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 July 2005 05:59 pm, Herbert Fischer wrote: In Slackware I had /etc/profile.d

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-15 Thread Herbert Fischer
Thanks... I saw that bug and saw that it is very old (from 2002) and nothing was done. Did you know why? On 7/15/05, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 July 2005 06:36 pm, Herbert Fischer wrote: thanks! I did not look at bugs.gentoo.org because I did not thought that things

Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-15 Thread Herbert Fischer
try something. On 7/15/05, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 July 2005 06:56 pm, Herbert Fischer wrote: Thanks... I saw that bug and saw that it is very old (from 2002) and nothing was done. Did you know why? hmm, us baselayout guys have discussed it before, but i guess